Books like The Genesis flood by John C. Whitcomb

In this sequel to The Lie: Evolution, Ken Ham brings astonishing clarity and insight into the questions troubling Christian families today, giving the underlying, foundational reason for the mess we are in. - Back cover.

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Many adults today cannot adequately defend their Christian faith because they do not understand the book of Genesis -- yet all major Christian doctrines, including salvation, have their foundation in this book of beginnings. Turn to the front of this book and look through the pictures. Each picture is worth a thousand words! When you go through these strikingly colorful and oftentimes humorous illustrations, the gospel message will be spelled out. As you read the rhymes, the theology that we all need to know and understand will come alive. And as you read the parent and teacher notes, you will think you are reading a commentary on the book of Genesis that presents the gospel in a unique way. - Back cover.

This forceful sequel to the author's earlier book, The Genesis Flood (coauthored with Dr. Henry M. Morris, now in its sixteenth printing), restates, updates, and defends in a more popular form the basic biblical and scientific evidence for the Genesis flood as a global catastrophe, for which abundant evidence is still to be seen. As in Dr. Whitcomb's earlier writings, this latest book unabashedly radiates an unshakeable faith in the authority and trustworthiness of the Word of God. Dr. Whitcomb maintains with vigor that the Bible straightforwardly declares and affirms a supernatural catastrophic flood of worldwide proportions, a declaration that is corroborated by scientific observations that are not warped by a uniformitarian bias in geology. Striking photos illustrating such phenomena as rapid formation of stalactites and stalagmites, the recent formation of the island of Surtsey, volcanic activity, and many other interesting subjects reinforce the message of the book. - Back cover.

A verse-by-verse commentary on the book of Genesis from the perspective of a Creationist.

Genesis begins with the making of heaven and earth and all life, and ends with the image of a mummy - Joseph's - in a coffin. In between come many of the primal stories in Western culture: Adam and Eve's expulsion from the garden of Eden, Cain's murder of Abel, Noah and the Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham's binding of Isaac, the covenant of God and Abraham, Isaac's blessing of Jacob in place of Esau, the saga of Joseph and his brothers. These are stories we attend to throughout our lives, for their literary power and beauty, their emotional resonance, their philosophical weight, and their sacredness. They connect us with one another and with generations past and future. . In Robert Alter's brilliant translation, these stories cohere in a powerful narrative of the tortuous relations between fathers and sons, husbands and wives, elder and younger brothers, God and his chosen people, the people of Israel and their neighbors. Alter's translation recovers the meanings, literary strategies, and eloquence of the ancient Hebrew and conveys them in striking literary English. The result is a Genesis with the continuity of theme and motif of a wholly conceived and fully realized book. Alter's translation is enhanced by his insightful, fully informed commentary, which illuminates the book in its many dimensions.

The biblical tale of Noah and the Flood has been interpreted in many different ways through the ages, mirroring the many changes in Western beliefs and values. In this masterly and beautifully illustrated book, Norman Cohn, the author of The Pursuit of the Millennium and Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come, explores the origins, development, and varying interpretations of this ancient story and assesses its impact on the history of ideas. The roots of the Flood story, Cohn explains, lie in Mesopotamian mythology. But its meaning was totally transformed by the authors of Genesis so that it became a message of hope for Jews and later a prefiguring of salvation for Christians. Cohn then shows how, under the impact of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the story came to be understood in a new way. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries it was closely associated with the development of scientific geology, which it both helped and hindered. From the late eighteenth century until the present day the story of Noah's Flood has been involved also in the conflict between traditional religious beliefs and science and the attempts to harmonize the two. Cohn describes how, while geological and palaeontological discoveries were calling the historicity of the Flood into question, fundamentalists have continued to champion it, even to the extent of searching for the landing site of the ark. Finally, he considers how, in the course of the present century, the story has been interpreted as a solar myth, a lunar myth, a fertility myth, and even (psychoanalytically) as an expression of male resentment against women. Wide ranging and compellingly narrated, the book includes intriguing accounts of the scholars and theologians who endorsed or rejected the Flood story and contributed to its powerful resonance over two thousand years.